Sean Combs’ lawyer Marc Agnifilo claimed Friday that the disgraced mogul’s decade-long relationship with Cassie Ventura — whom he’s caught on camera brutally beating — was “kind of a great modern love story.”
“They loved. They loved out loud,” the attorney said, pacing back and forth in front of the jury box.
“She was always free to leave. She chose to stay because she was in love with him, and he was in love with her,” Agnifilo added.
“They loved. They loved out loud.”
The lawyer also suggested that jurors would “cry” when reading the “beautiful” text messages around Combs and Ventura’s breakup during deliberations.
“If you want to read some beautiful, beautiful language … read the texts. You’ll cry. You will cry. You’ll read evidence with an exhibit sticker on it and you will cry.”
Combs was caught on camera yanking Ventura down by her hair, kicking and punching her in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in March 2016.
Ventura testified that Combs beat her countless other times, forced her to have degrading sex with male escorts, and raped her in 2018 after they broke up.
